THE CIA: The Assassination Plot That Failed

Of all the charges of wrongdoing by the
Central Intelligence Agency, the most disturbing are those that
implicate the agency in plots to assassinate foreign rulers who were
deemed inimical to U.S. interests. Among the putative targets were
Congolese Nationalist Leader Patrice Lumumba and Dominican Republic
Dictator Rafael Trujillo, who were assassinated in 1961; South Viet Nam
President Ngo Dinh Diem, who was murdered in 1963; and Cuban Premier
Fidel Castro. The allegations are being investigated by a Senate
committee, which last week continued to question past and present CIA
officers...